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It outlines the contents and the aims of a series of free online meetings based on the theme of inclusivity in schools and making neurodivergent kids feel welcome. There are two meetings aimed at the teachers (February 9 and February 16) and two for the parents (March 6 and March 13). The meetings will be recorded and published online several days later.
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It outlines the contents and the aims of a series of three free meetings based on the theme of affection and sexuality in autistic girls. One meeting will be online and two in person. The first meeting has already been done, but the next meeting will be on February 15, and the last on March 20.
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On February 7, there will be a free meeting in Venice with a professor on the development of children from zero to six years old. The event will be recorded and published online after the meeting. The meeting is valid for teacher’s training purposes and the attendees will be receiving a certificate of participation via email.
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A four-meeting course, two in person and two online, on educational robotics. It will be taught by an all-female team of experts. The meetings are for both teachers and students: teachers will be able to listen and discuss their experiences and the students will be taught how to design a simple robotics game.
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A series of four meetings about useful strategies teachers can use to deal with challenging and oppositional behaviours from their students, how they can take care of special educational needs and how to manage difficult classes. The first and second meeting will be online and the last two meetings will be in person.
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There are videos that explain the photovoice technique, a learning method that uses image creation as a tool, through a recording of a meeting that took place on January 22. The video is available in both Italian and English.
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A series of three online meetings for primary and secondary school teachers that teach how to recognize relationships that undermine a learning environment and which methods to use to prevent them and promote a non-violence in school. The meetings will take place online on February 8, February 15 and February 29. Participation is free and attendees will be issued certificates valid for in-service training of teachers.
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A series of in-person meetings about “The evaluation of pupils in the perspective of an innovative and effective school”. The meetings will be recorded and the recordings will be made available online later on. The first meeting, January 18, has already happened, but there are still the meetings on February 22 and March 7.
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Training modules about how teachers can help children with disabilities get from school to the workplace or to “after-school” activities. The first meeting took place on December 14, 2023, the second in-person meeting took place January 16 and the third, fourth and fifth meetings will take place in-person on February 16, March 7 and March 15. Teachers who participate will be sent a certificate of participation.
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The recordings and the slides of two meetings about the SMAT technique that aims to help children and teenagers with disabilities learn how to express themselves and develop self-awareness. The meetings were aimed at both parents and teachers.
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A series of useful meetings for teachers about how having a school without grades is possible, and it already exists. These meetings will discuss how grades form walls between students, and between the teachers and the students, and how to use other evaluation methods to foster an environment of trust, and turn the learning experience into something more valuable than a number to aim for.
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Provides a banner linked to a website edited by Enrico Bottero on the topic of Freinet Pedagogy created by the French educator Célestin Freinet.
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An invitation for teachers to sign up to educational communities that discuss specific topics, Neuro-psycho Pedagogy focused on students’ wellbeing and how to help vulnerable groups, where teachers can exchange good practices, get mutual training and share their educational expertise with each other.
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A notice on the creation of the Department for the national coordination of the community of non-grading schools and about how the School of Relations and Responsibilities will be running several meetings, a project started 7 years ago by a section of the Morgagni scientific high school of Rome, will be running several meetings about how to run a school without grades.
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This provides the recording of a meeting that discussed how teachers and schools are responsible for raising and guiding their students to be the future of democracy.
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One of the objectives of the Let’s Care Project is to identify the factors that can lead a student to do poorly in school, to put in a low amount of effort or to drop out of school. It provides a link for school to sign up to be a part of the initial data-collecting part of the project through methods like interviews and focus groups.
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This article provides the recording of a workshop about how mathematics can be taught to adults, children, immigrants and those with special educational needs like those who suffer from dyscalculia. There’s also a recording of a robotics workshop, one about a workshop on the importance of personal equilibrium for teachers, one on how to prevent students from becoming hikikomori (shut-ins), and a last recording of a workshop about emotions and motivation in classes.
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It provides the links to various recordings of three meetings and workshops cycles. The first series of videos is about how to create a school that promotes the social values of peace, acceptance and the prevention of inequality and discrimination. The second series of videos is about how schools can help with the environmental crisis. The third meeting and workshops videos is about how to build a free and innovative school.
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A series of videos on a training course about the Freinet Pedagogy, what it is and how to use it in schools.
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A notice about an in-person meeting on February 24, meant for school principals and teachers, with Alessio Perpolli who has always seen the opportunities in his job and he has learned to see people’s complexities and differences as great opportunities rather than a problem in a scholastic environment.
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A series of conferences and workshops about how to educate students on democracy and solidarity in an increasingly individualized and selfish society. The speakers come from all over the world and have the experience to teach about building schools that will encourage an environment that respects and welcomes diversity and promotes peace as an educational principle.
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It provides the recordings of three meetings about how to recognise gifted students, and what strategies to employ to identify the necessities of each gifted child and create an inclusive environment that values and nurtures their talents.
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